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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?
(a) "To be found."
(b) "For justice."
(c) "For history."
(d) "To be loved."
2. On what airline does the author describe sitting in a window seat in Chapter 1?
(a) Pan-Am Airlines.
(b) United Airlines.
(c) Delta Airlines.
(d) American Airlines.
3. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is" what?
(a) "Meaningful."
(b) "Elusive."
(c) "Inexorable."
(d) "Beyond me."
4. The author writes in Chapter 1, "If this were a domestic tragedy, and it might well be, this would be your fatal flaw." What is the fatal flaw she describes?
(a) "Your memory, vessel of your feelings."
(b) "Your ambition and hopes for progress."
(c) "Your belief in a system of justice."
(d) "Your blackness."
5. What word from Chapter 2 means to have commercialized something?
(a) Extradicted.
(b) Commodified.
(c) Mollified.
(d) Codified.
Short Answer Questions
1. What word in Chapter 4 refers to a contemplative person?
2. The author describes the script in Chapter 6 as being comprised of quotes from what television station?
3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to something suitable to become the subject of a lawsuit?
4. What is the name of Hennessy Youngman's internet series that the author discusses in Chapter 2?
5. The author describes the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Chapter 6, saying that her friend said that the FEMA people all wanted to stay where?
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